Release: Campaign Criticizes Congress for Delaying Closure of Gitmo

December 23, 2009  |  Posted by Ryan Anderson

Former Congressman Tom Andrews, Director of the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, released the following statement to the press today in response to a story by the New York Times that new delays by Congress could keep Gitmo open until 2011:

I am alarmed to hear that Congress continues to ignore the advice of General Colin Powell and other respected military leaders who call for closing Guantanamo as soon as possible because its continued existence threatens our national security. On top of that, you would think that in the midst of a deep recession they might want to avoid wasting tens of millions of taxpayer’s dollars by continuing to spend twice as much money to incarcerate prisoners in Guantanamo as in a maximum security prison in Illinois.

The willingness of some Democrats in Congress to join their Republican colleagues in undermining our national security by playing politics with Guantanamo is an outrage. If Congress really wants to protect our troops they should act to close Guantanamo now.

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